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Well its January the 14th and we were warned/promised the coldest winter in living memory, coldest in 50 years, 3 day week etc..

I have had 1hr sledging and had to go to whittaker park to find snow deep enough, next morning it had gone :( other than that evening it has been MILD and boring :( I feel very let down as I am a big kid and have been really excited that this was gonna be the one....

Have you notice that all the talk earlier on when we had a bit of frost has stopped....

I hope it comes...but I doubt it......I have bought extra sledges,snow shovel, grit :( That was probably the whole idea and muggins here was sucker No1 :(:(

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You jinxed it.:(

Sell your sledge on E-bay, and let the rest of us enjoy the coldset snap for forty years.:)

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None of it will go to waste if you start keeping Ostriches, you can put the grit at the bottom of their cage, use the snow shovel for clearing up the extra large amounts of bird sh*t and the sledges for dragging them to the funeral pire when they die of bird 'flu!

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*L* u know i was talkin about my work ppl about this today

i was sayin how much of a let down this winter has been!!
the one time i was hopin it wud really snow = it had melted by the morning...

is nothing going to be the same again?! damn u tony blair damn u!

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I blame Margaret Thatcher.

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Actually it’s George Bush’s fault. Burning half of the middle east and all that oil.

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Today outside it was a bit chilly, about 65degrees and a little wind, a hell of a winter.:D :D :D

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I am glad we haven't had the cold weather as predicted......but I still think it is a bit early to do any crowing......there is quite a good lump of winter left for it all to hit us.

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Exactly.

Don't we traditionally get more snow in Febuary?

In the really cold winter [1963?], didn't the whole country freeze up from the end of January until Easter, with snow on the ground the whole time?

Not time to get the shorts out just yet.

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In 1947 the winter went on until May......my mother tells me that my Gandma went down Acc for some meat from what was then known as the Argenta......and it was so icy she couldn't walk with her clogs on.....she had to take them off and walk in her stockinged feet. I don't remember this personally as I was only a bump in my mothers waistband.

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Also 1962 or 63 was a really bad winter. My parents were going to a wedding in Manchester and got caught in a snow drift, and this was at Easter.

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Yes......I think it was 1962 Garinda.......we made ice lollies on the INSIDE of the bedroom window ledge that year.......it was so cold that we went to bed with as many clothes on as we went out in. I think Muti even lit a fire in the bedroom.....frightened that we might all freeze to death.

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We think we had a few bad winter in Accy in the sixty’s and 67 seems to stick in my mind for some reason. I can remember having to walk up Green Haworth between the drifts always fun on the first day, but getting horrendous as time went on.

I can remember losing a lens out of my glasses one day after mucking about, the drifts where at least three foot deep. What you don’t really appreciate until you live away for a time is how bitterly cold it gets over there, with or without snow.

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I remember 1947 and 1962/3. Both were hard winters. I was a small child in '47 so it was fun; snowball fights, sledging, building snowmen and walking along the frozen canal with my dad. I was a young working wife in 62/3 so it was a pain and the trains used to stop for hours, between Accrington and Bury (where I worked), due to frozen points. I think it was '65 when I was visiting my parents, who still lived in West End at the time, at Easter. Over 6" of snow fell and the weight of it brought the iron guttering from their house roof crashing down to where my daughter and I had been standing minutes before.

There's a lot more Winter to go (ugh) so we might get it yet. :(

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good to have a bad winter .....i remember building an igloo in my front garden when i was young...in the 1940's-----1950's strewth were they bad but what great summers we had.

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One word................................JEALOUS....... ........:(:(:(:(

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Alls I want is some snow for sledging. :(

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If I do not get snow soon I might be lifted for sledging well try to anyway down the dry ski slope at Polmont.:o

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Please send some of your cold weather to Queensland

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You wold be popular if it got cold and wet on the Gold Coast and in Brisbane. :D

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Too soon yet to crow or moan. February is usually the worst month for snow, and it's a long time until Easter. I don't remember 1947 because I was only 11 months old at the time (precocious, yes, but not that precocious). I do remember 62/63, it was abysmal - month after month of freezing slush, no central heating in those days, huddling over a coal fire, ice on the INSIDE of the bedroom window. My elders and betters told me that 47 was worse, because coal was still on ration or not easily available, and people did freeze.

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Actually, according to the Met Office, December was an average of 0.5 degrees colder than the average temperature for the same period over the last thirty years.

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So much for global warming. Maybe the Gulf Stream has lost a bit more umph and as it gets colder so will we. Global Warming = Ice Cap melt = More fresh water in the Gulf Stream conveyer belt = cooler Gulf stream = more cold weather for us. :(

The thermal undies industry must be having a boom time. :D

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I watched a programme on TV about Antartica. Apparently global warming is causing the ice to melt at the outer edges, but the south pole itself is actually becoming colder.

I don't know what it all means, but I bet we still don't get any ice in most of our drinks in England.

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Yes I think the fact that most people have central heating and far better insulated houses has made the 'comfort level' inside, misleading as to how cold it acually is outside. I too remember ice on the inside of the bedroom window almost every winter as a kid. Getting out of bed was bloody murderous it was so cold. We didn't even have an 'all night burner' in the fireplace so the house was virtually freezing first thing in the morning. Then, most people could only afford to have a coal fire in one room so that when you moved out of it you were almost frozen immediately. No-one wanted to leave the warm living room to go upstairs to a freezing cold bedroom. Bluddy 'ell it were 'ard when AB and me were kids!!!!

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And there was an absolute fight if you were told to go and get a bucket of coal from the coal place in the yard.
We didn't have the problem of the toilet freezing up......we were not posh enough to have a flush lavvie......we had a 'long drop'.......but again, you didn't go out to the lav unless you were dressed like Scott of the Antarctic

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I took a bimble to the shops and the Ochils have got a dusting of snow so I am fingers crossed>

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Bimble?:confused:

Is that even more Scottish than 'going for the messages'?:D

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A quick confedent stroll. :D

Leave the weekly shopping untill saturday please. My messages list is big. :)

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The same kind of bimble I will take on Saturday to the IES at about 2pm. :D

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:)
Thanks for the translation of bimble.

I had images of it being were you walked to the shops with wee tartan socks over your shoes so that you didn't slip in the snow.;)

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I wish we aint got any snow yet. :( :( :( :( :( :( :( :( :(

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I think Simon should get on his sleigh and go and visit Roy in Moscow.

It's just been on the radio that because it's -30C in Moscow, the gas supply has had to be reduced from Russia to Italy, and also some other parts of Europe.

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Plenty of snow thats good but even though I love it being cold 30 below is a tad chilly for me. :(

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At what temperature is it to cold to go bimbling?:D

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Coldest I have been out bimbling is 19 below without taking windchill into account. :)

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19 below - u'd find me sat on top of the fire, with my coat on, fleece, wooly socks and enough layers of clothing to stop me from even thinking about moving out through my front door!

And before anyone says anything about long johns - aint got any!

Thought i'd best get that in first before anyone else did!

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I had to work in it. :( I have never been so happy to be in a houf after that shift.

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According to the forecast we are going to get some of the white stuff soon........so don't pack the sledges away just yet......you might just get a ride on them soon.

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FOR SALE

1 rare smile "as I see snow on the floor at 7.30am"
2 2 adult sledges with steering and brakes
3 4 kids sledges
4 1 large snow shovel
5 3 bags of grit salt
6 1 big helping of faith in the MET office :(

best offers secures :(:(

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Have you grown another child I don't know about?

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Neil dont be personal................... And why would you know when it grows ??

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Mystic Si,

what are the lottery numbers for tomorrow night, oh wise Seer?;)

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3,12,14,35,39,44

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Thanks.

No bonus ball? I'm not a greedy person.:D

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Making you wait.....................

























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If they come up hell will freeze over. :o